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I like it. In some ways it reminds me of how I described how Starlight could've become the 'big bad' following Season 5 a while back, since for a long time I greatly preferred her as a villain.


 
Anyway, I like the idea of him leaving things to test the villains and so on. Would make every time he appeared a moment when everyone watching would start paying very close attention to see what the figure's next move would be. Perhaps leaving a scroll in the area where Chrysalis was hiding, just for her to find it and create her failed dopplegangers. Among the other ideas you had. Never appearing to them physically, but just leaving things for them in places they're bound to stumble upon.


 
I could imagine the reveal, even. The episode beginning with the villains being set free, and some sort of clue, maybe even a map, for themselves to follow if they wanted to take over Equestria. Eventually they'd all arrive around the same time at the same place, a sort of subterranean fortress of sorts - This being all that remains of the Lost City of Tambelon. Little more than a sunken and decaying castle being left. They start questioning each other about who led them there, getting heated like they did at each other in the actual premiere. Then a bell sounds, something like a the bell fromf a bell tower, and maybe it dawns on Tirek in particular where they are, and then the cloaked figure appears before them. Sunken red eyes peer out from beneath the hood of the cloak and Grogar finally reveals himself.


 
Now, while I enjoy the sound of what you've thought up here, we have to take into account how the showrunners probably weren't sure how long the series would run for, and they probably didn't have a clear answer until around Season 7 when they dropped the story of how Gusty the Great fought Grogar and the like, treating it like a myth. While there could've been more hints at Grogar's presence as a real entity in Equestria, perhaps other stories about him being mentioned here and there, I think that if the showrunners wanted to keep him a surprise I wouldn't blame them too much for not mentioning him that often across only two Seasons. Perhaps he could've appeared once during either the S7 or S8 Finale after his first mention in that story, but I don't think they could've done much more given the time they had if they wanted him to be a surprise. So I can understand why he didn't appear sooner if their plan was to have him be the one at the end.

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I like it. In some ways it reminds me of how I described how Starlight could've become the 'big bad' following Season 5 a while back, since for a long time I greatly preferred her as a villain.

Anyway, I like the idea of him leaving things to test the villains and so on. Would make every time he appeared a moment when everyone watching would start paying very close attention to see what the figure's next move would be. Perhaps leaving a scroll in the area where Chrysalis was hiding, just for her to find it and create her failed dopplegangers. Among the other ideas you had. Never appearing to them physically, but just leaving things for them in places they're bound to stumble upon.

I could imagine the reveal, even. The episode beginning with the villains being set free, and some sort of clue, maybe even a map, for themselves to follow if they wanted to take over Equestria. Eventually they'd all arrive around the same time at the same place, a sort of subterranean fortress of sorts - This being all that remains of the Lost City of Tambelon. Little more than a sunken and decaying castle being left. They start questioning each other about who led them there, getting heated like they did at each other in the actual premiere. Then a bell sounds, something like a the bell from a bell tower, and maybe it dawns on Tirek in particular where they are, and then the cloaked figure appears before them. Sunken red eyes peer out from beneath the hood of the cloak and Grogar finally reveals himself.

Now, while I enjoy the sound of what you've thought up here, we have to take into account how the showrunners probably weren't sure how long the series would run for, and they probably didn't have a clear answer until around Season 7 when they dropped the story of how Gusty the Great fought Grogar and the like, treating it like a myth. While there could've been more hints at Grogar's presence as a real entity in Equestria, perhaps other stories about him being mentioned here and there, I think that if the showrunners wanted to keep him a surprise I wouldn't blame them too much for not mentioning him that often across only two Seasons. Perhaps he could've appeared once during either the S7 or S8 Finale after his first mention in that story, but I don't think they could've done much more given the time they had if they wanted him to be a surprise. So I can understand why he didn't appear sooner if their plan was to have him be the one at the end.